Lord Privy Seal

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cabinet position government office ministerial office

The Lord Privy Seal is a senior ministerial office in the British government, historically responsible for the monarch’s privy seal but now largely a sinecure often combined with other cabinet duties.

Aliases (3)

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cabinet position → government office → ministerial office →
advisedBy	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom →
appliesToJurisdiction	England → Great Britain → United Kingdom →
appointedBy	Monarch of the United Kingdom →
country	United Kingdom →
governmentBranch	executive branch of the United Kingdom →
hasCharacteristic	can be used to give cabinet rank to a minister without a departmental portfolio → no specific departmental responsibilities in the modern era → often held concurrently with Leader of the House of Lords → sometimes held concurrently with Leader of the House of Commons →
hasCurrentRole	largely sinecure cabinet office → often combined with other ministerial duties →
hasDuty	custody of the monarch’s privy seal →
hasHistoricalFunction	authentication of royal documents with the privy seal → management of the privy seal →
hasHistoricalRole	officer responsible for the privy seal of the sovereign →
hasStatus	great office of state (historically classified) → senior ministerial office →
hasStyle	The Right Honourable →
hasTitleForm	Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (historical variant) → Lord Privy Seal →
inception	14th century →
isPositionHeldBy	member of the House of Lords or House of Commons →
language	English →
memberOf	Cabinet of the United Kingdom →
officeHoldersInclude	Anthony Eden → Baroness Evans of Bowes Park → Baroness Stowell of Beeston → Clement Attlee → David Lidington → Harold Macmillan → John Major → Natalie Evans, Baroness Evans of Bowes Park → Penny Mordaunt → William Hague →
partOf	Cabinet of the United Kingdom → Government of the United Kingdom →
relatedTo	Lord Chancellor → Lord Great Chamberlain → Lord President of the Council → Privy Council of the United Kingdom → Privy seal →
seat	London →
usedBy	British government →

Referenced by (39)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Alec Douglas-Home → Anthony Eden → Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton → Baroness Stowell of Beeston → Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton → Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey → Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland → Clement Attlee → Edward Heath → Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin → George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough → James Henry Thomas → John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham → John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby → John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough → Lord Beaverbrook → Lord Beaverbrook ("Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster") → Lord Curzon → Margaret Jay → Natalie Evans, Baroness Evans of Bowes Park → Pitt the Elder → Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple → Sir John Anderson → The Duke of Grafton → William Maxwell Aitken → William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne → William Pitt the Elder → William Pitt the Elder →	positionHeld
Great Officer of State → Great Officers of State of the United Kingdom →	hasPart
Thomas Hoccleve ("Office of the Privy Seal") →	employer
Leader of the House of Commons →	hasAssociatedOffice
Lord Privy Seal →	hasTitleForm
Lord Irwin →	heldPosition
Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton →	heldTitle
Second Baldwin government →	includesOffice
Pitt family →	notableForOfficeHeldByMembers
James Henry Thomas →	notableOffice
Secretary of State for the Southern Department ("King’s Principal Secretary") →	precededBy